This looks cool. It is impossible to play an FPS game properly on a touch screen small handheld device, but this would be perfect for watching demos (match replays). If Quake 3 runs this well then I’m assuming other old OpenGL games like QuakeWorld will be supported too. I look forward to [...]
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Quake Live, the newest in the Quake series by ID Software, is now accepting beta testers. You can sign up with your email address on the website. Quake Live is a free game, based on Quake 3, fully focused on the multiplayer side of things. Multiplayer games have strayed far from the [...]
Thursday, December 27, 2007 It must be the laziest day of the year. I hooked up the Nintendo Wii and downloaded a few old NES games:
Excite Bike
Browsing through the titles, I was hit by nostalgia for the excite bike theme tune. Turns out the game is not very exciting. Don’t think I played it much to [...]
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Thursday, November 22, 2007 I’d love to work for one of the companies that thinks up ads for TV. I imagine them all sitting at a big round table deciding what kind of campaign to go with. They talk about the brand, and brainstorm a bit, trying to think of something clever but direct, debating the merits [...]
I can’t believe I missed this a couple of weeks ago… QuakeCon is a major computer gaming event held anually in Texas since 1996. This year’s event had over 7,000 attendees, and dished out $100,000 in prize money.
What do you think of this:
To promote the event, the organisers posted some pictures from the [...]
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Saturday, August 11, 2007 Call of Duty 2 in the Office (U.S.):
Here is another reason why my MacBook Pro is better than your Thinkpad.
The gameplay revolves around two core principles:
Tilt your macbook from side to side to move paddle
Scream at your macbook to increase paddle size
This has to be the greatest invention since the seed drill, and it is open source.
Faustov has written up a nice Mencoder tutorial to help QuakeWorld players make movies in Linux. I don’t think I’ll be making any QW movies in the near future, but I’ll bookmark this anyway, since I always struggle even with the basics of Mencoder.
The Daily Tech have an article about a hacker who is curretly holding Valve Software (the makers of Half-life) to ransom, having hacked into the system that manages internet cafe licences, and retrieved details and credit card information.
Most gamers will remember the bit of trouble that Valve had a couple of years ago, when a [...]